Brewer reports TNInvestco concerns of TTDC staff

Tennessee Center for Policy Research Executive Director Clint Brewer reports on the fruits of his recent FOIA request for TNInvestco-related documents on-file at Tennessee Technology Development Corporation (TTDC). Some of the documents, as described by Brewer, suggest early concern by some TTDC staff regarding the need for a body independent of ECD-Revenue to select TNInvestco winners. Brewer also says the documents he obtained suggest tensions between ECD officials and TTDC leadership. Brewer's report, apparently funded by TCPR, is here.

TCPR weighs-in on TNInvestco

Tennessee Center for Policy Research Interim Executive Director Clint Brewer (left), formerly editor of The City Paper in Nashville and a former national president of the Society of Professional Journalists, weighed-in Friday on what he characterizes as the State's efforts to maintain "secrecy" around the TNInvestco program, rather than simply protect the confidentiality of corporate and state information the confidentiality of which they consider crucial to state economic development efforts. Last August, Brewer also raised the spectre of inappropriate insurance-industry ties among some TNInvestco legislative sponsors. Full VNC coverage of TNInvestco here.